The user upload feature hasn’t been initially envisaged in the Ikebana theme, yet in principle if you create new users with a certain set of capabilities (incl. uploading images and creating new projects), you should be able to achieve this. One user setting plugin I would recommend is User Role Editor.

Should you have any additional questions about the theme, do not hesitate to contact me.

You’re right, the overlay behaviour is quite ugly for the “link” format tiles; my apologies for this one and thanks for bringing this up! I’ve prepared a fix – please download this archive, unzip it, and upload the resulting files into the theme folder (/wp-content/themes/Ikebana/), replacing the existing files. When you refresh the website after that, the “link” format tiles should only show an overlay on mouse hover when they have a thumbnail, otherwise only the link itself will be clickable. Let me know if the bug disappears after the update.

1). The current version of the theme does not support displaying embedded video, Google maps, or social media feeds inside the masonry tiles; there is a specialized project format called “link” however, which allows linking a tile to any external or internal URL. In case a project is not given a thumbnail image, its tile will display a part of its content, which means that a newsletter sign-in box can potentially be embedded inside a tile. As an example of embedding, you can take a look at the website of the new Danish political party Alternativet, which is based on Ikebana: http://alternativet.dk/; note the green “søg” tile, which is a search form embedded in a tile.

2). By default, the masonry tiles are sorted by creation date; you can also choose to sort them by date modified, comment count, or a custom order, which can then be changed for any specific tile individually. You can also declare one or more tiles as “sticky”, which will force them to always come first before all other tiles, independent of the sorting method.

Should any of the above require more clarifications, or in case you have other questions, don’t hesitate to contact me!

In principle – we do, yet at the moment there’s no time in the schedule to ensure a proper level of quality, thus I would have to refer you to specialized development/customization platforms such as Envato Studio.

Just to be clear – we do offer free support to all buyers regarding theme setup, bugs, fixes, and third-party plugin compatibility.

1. Printing out the portfolio view results in cutted off boxes on the right. So not all information will be on the printout. I tested it on Chrome and Firefox.
Do you got an idea how to resolve this? I tried it with a CSS workaround but the size attribute is not supported by every browser:
@media print {
@page {
size:450mm 402mm;
}
}

2. On the iPad1 the screen flickers on load of the portfolio view. Tested it on two different iPad1 in Safari and Chrome. On iPad2 and later the problem does not reoccur.

Thank you for bringing up these issues, I’ve spent quite some time now trying to find a cross-browser solution to the first one (it appears that there is no standardized way of printing out an Isotope masonry layout), yet I’m afraid I need more time. I will also need to find an iPad1 to test the theme on it, which may take some time. I would really appreciate if you could “bump” this topic again on Monday the 9th in case there’s no answer from me on that day. Thank you for understanding!

after some extensive testing, I found out that all non-webkit browsers offer settings in the print mode to scale the masonry layout and fit it into the paper width, e.g. the “Scale” option in Firefox. It was thus left to find a way to alter the webkit-browser print layouts (i.e. Chrome and Safari), and after some meddling with the @print conditional CSS, I’ve managed to remove all Isotope transformations, forcing all tiles to be displayed on the paper. Please download this archive, unzip it, and upload the resulting files into the theme folder (/wp-content/themes/Ikebana/), replacing the existing files. This should force the webkit browsers to generate a less aesthetic, but more practical layout on print command.

Regarding the iPad issue: I couldn’t find an iPad1 to test it yet (my local stores only sell the second model, so have to search among friends), and the available web emulators do not seem to be able to reproduce the issue. Would it be possible for you to record a screencast on how the theme loads on iPad1, using Screenr for example? That would at least give me an idea how the situation looks in detail. Thanks!

When I use the “Link” format on portfolio items, the hover seems to be acting weird. I’m in Firefox and Chrome on a Mountain Lion Mac, and they kind of vibrate as I move the link across.
The “texjer” fix 19 days ago not function.
Can you hel me.
Tk

Hi …. I resolve the problem … I have update the theme version 3.1
Unfortunally, in this versione I have verify that when I use the “Link” format on portafolio item, the background color not show usually in the front end.

1.Yes you have understand. When I select the color in the portfolio page (back end) and the post box size, usually the color not show in the front end. I verify this issue when I select 1×1.

2. Another question. I like the “Aside format” and I verify the good is code, but unfortunally it display the unclickable thumbnail image. Is possible show the clickable thumbnail image with the excerpt.

1). Please make sure that when you select the color in the “Background Color” settings window, you always press the blue “submit” button on the colorpicker so that the hex representation of the color remains in the field when you close the colorpicker.

2). The “aside” format has been designed for un-clickable images specifically; you can use a “standard” format project with a thumbnail (featured image) for a clickable image tile.

About 1. Specification: Now I working on the theme: I have modify the content portfolio “Link Format” page. I haven’t touch the color ad the size box [2×1]. Published it. In front-end the color is lost !

regarding issue #1, I will need to ask you for access to the back-end, I cannot seem to be able to replicate the problem on my WP installs; you can send the login and password to support@satoristudio.net (no disclosure guaranteed).

Concerning the second question – the excerpts for masonry tiles are sourced from the excerpt box in the project editor mode – you can insert any information into it, and it will display in the semi-transparent overlay on top of the image in the tile. You can also control whether to display the overlays on mouse hover, or always, or never, using the “Portfolio item captions” option in the “Portfolio Page” tab of the Theme Options panel.

you’ve apparently given my user an “author” role, with which I cannot see most of the important settings and code – could you please promote the user you’ve created for me to “administrator” so that I could look at the theme’s code and plugins? Thanks!

I’ve updated the file once more and sent you the latest version of “content-link.php” to your email just in case; overall, all these issues (changes made to the website randomly not being saved) looks a lot like a caching problem – I can see that you’re not using any caching plugin inside WordPress, maybe your hosting company uses some sort of caching for faster page load? In that case it is highly recommended to disable the caching for the duration of the development process.

Hi Andrii,
I checked my hosting company and I verified the caching program was active. I stoped this program.

I read the code about “Link”format portfolio file and I understod that in the front end this file to write the url link: this is a core code ”<?php $postlink = urlgrabber(); ?>” ad your “echo”.
If it is possible to show the content or excerpt in stead the code <?php $postlink = urlgrabber(); ?>.
Thanks a lot.

this hasn’t been envisaged by the theme initially, and I would recommend using the “standard” project format instead, yet in principle it is doable – you’d need to replace the line with the “urlgrabber” function with something like this:

Hi Andrii,
I like to be observe that the “Link” format continue not function correcly. When I moditfy a portfolio post, add link to the text or remove it, modify the size box … the post format lost the colour.
Can you check it ? Please use the “Video Project for Vodafone” portfolio post, because in this post I have show the problem.
TK

The left hand icon navigation is presumably categories, is there any AJAX functionality for tags? (I’m assuming not, but thought I’d check)

Why is it on the demo, if the category (icon menu) is selected from a different page (such as the features page) the AJAX no longer works, unless you head to the home page? (e.g go to Features, then click Experiments. If you then click Services, it loads normally instead of the expected AJAX)

The icon menu of the left hand side can have two modes: it can either be linked with a portfolio tag (one of taxonomies), in which case it will filter the portfolio (masonry) page or act like a direct link to the particular tag archive on all other pages; OR it can have any arbitrary URL set as a link (either internal or external), in which case it will always point to that URL and not act as a filter on portfolio page. The fact that the icon menu does not work as a filter outside portfolio pages in the first option is because there is nothing to filter when the tiles are not loaded, which made it more logical to point to the tag archive.

Should you have more questions about the theme, do not hesitate to contact me.

Hi there, I am interested in your theme and have three questions beforehand.

First, is the script that displays the pictures (like fancybox) hardcoded into the theme? I want to use the easy fancybox plugin for the settings and iframe capability, but had problems with a another theme (the reason I am looking at this now) which had fancybox hardcoded, which overrode the plugin settings.

Second, I love the masonry style and want to display pictures, quotes etc. and normal text posts. In the demo I see some tiles that have text, but you can’t click them to link to the posts page. Is this possible (to have some tiles preview the posts text)?

Third, is it possible (code wise) that I add a jquery “likes” script to the tiles myself, or will this interfere with the theme too much?

1). Ikebana uses a customized version of the Easy Fancybox plugin for displaying the overlays; it is embedded into the theme, i.e. is not shipped as a separate plugin which can be uninstalled, yet it can easily be turned off (by commenting out one line of code in the theme’s functions.php file); if need be, I can show you how to do it.

2). Yes, it is possible to have clickable tiles with with text – if you use a “standard” project format instead of “quote” or “aside” on a project and add no thumbnail (featured image), it will produce a tile with text that points to the respective project.

3). This depends a lot on the actual code of the snippet; from jQuery side, there shouldn’t be any conflicts, because I use “noconflict” wrap for all scripts that I include into the theme; however, it is hard to tell how easy it will be to incorporate the new elements into the tiles design (i.e. the front-end), without seeing their actual code. For the sake of transparency, I must also mention that such additions are considered as theme customizations and are not generally covered by the free support offer; however, I do try to help out in case of small issues that do not require significant restructuring of the theme’s code.

Ikebana does offer similar functionality to the website you’ve linked to, yet it must be noted that in case you wish to implement all features from the GCC Wired in Ikebana, the theme would require certain customization, which is not covered by the ThemeForest support offer (I do try to help and provide guidance or even some additional code, though). In particular, please note the following differences between the website and the theme:
- the left side menu is made from images with hover text in Ikebana, and does not fold on mouse click.
- a countdown times, like on the second masonry tile, would require a separate plugin.
- there is no option to put images into the area on the left (under the menu), this would have to be added via some additional code.
- a layout such as on this page: http://gccwired.com/mission/ would require a new custom template file.

Should you have additional questions about the theme, do not hesitate to ask!

you’re right, that’s not supposed to happen, my apologies and thanks for bringing this up! I suspect that the reason might be in the fact that the Isotope plugin which builds the masonry layout takes the dimensions of the first tile as grid parameters, in case none were specified separately; I’ve prepared a fix, where the row height specification has been added to the code – please download this archive, unzip it, and upload the resulting file into the theme folder (/wp-content/themes/Ikebana/) via FTP, replacing the existing one. Please let me know if the file fixes the bug!

I’ve purchased this ikebana theme just recently and I got some question or feature request :

1. Is it possible to change the width of the page? If I remember correctly the demo page before have like a full screen width or almost full screen width right?

2. I don’t think that the template has this feature right now, so maybe this is more like a feature request. I would LOVE if the portfolio page can make the featured image become a BLACK & WHITE image and when we MOUSE OVER it, it will become the original image (with colour).

If it’s too complicated, could you like give us the ability to set different image between normal and mouse over? I can live with this and edit my images to become a Black & White manually and upload both into each project. This will make non designer people like me can upload just any image we want without considering the colour clash

I apologize for the delay in my reply! I’ve answered your question on the forum as well, so that forum visitors could also benefit from the information.

I will cover your questions in the same order:

1). Yes, there’s a special setting for that in Ikebana, please visit the “Page Elements” tab of the Theme Options panel and input your desired maximum width into the “Maximum content width” field. If you want to force the page to stretch to the max of the available screen with in all cases, you can set this parameter to a high number, e.g. 5000. The default setting is 1500 (pixels).

2). I am not planning to introduce this feature in full into the theme so far, mostly since it is quite specific for a wide-use theme; however, I can provide a piece of code for you that would implement greyscale hover effect on at least 90% of currently used browsers (this is also a more efficient solution, because loading each image in two alternatives would drastically increase the load time of the website, which could negatively impact use experience). Please see the code here.

You can insert this code into the “Style: Add Custom CSS” tab of the Theme Optoions panel (do not forget to press the “Save all changes” button to preserve the effect).

1). The native WordPress option to display either a static page (as in the demo) or blog posts (i.e. this page of the demo) as the front page is also available in Ikebana.

2). Yes, you can choose between 14 different sizes for each individual tile, from 1×1 to 4×4 and all intermediate combinations (except for 1×4 and 4×1 so far, which the tests have proved to be quite uncanny

Should you have additional questions about the theme, do not hesitate to contact me.

However it is still not very clear for me.
To illustrate what I mean, here is a link to my Blog: http://blognature.fr/
I have hand-built my own theme. The goal of the front page is to be “minimalist”: show all my blog posts as “thumbnail + category + title”.

However, I am not enough an expert to build a “responsive” theme and I do not know how to generate nice interlocking tiles of various sizes as you do.

Thus, I do not want a static page, I am looking for a tiles-like front page showing all my blog posts automatically with the possibility to highlight some of my posts with a bigger tile (an option to select the tile size in the post-edit admin page would be very nice).

I spent a long time searching on the Web and I thought that you very nice ikebana theme did that.

thank you for the explanation! I will try to clarify my previous comment:
There are two types of front page one can have in WordPress (using any theme): either a page with a certain layout – this is called a “static page”; or a page which automatically shows all blog posts – this is called a “blog posts page”. The choice can be set in the “Settings -> Reading” section of the WP admin panel. Now, here’s a twist: using custom queries, it is possible to create other content types, apart from the default “blog posts”, and list them on a specific page template (which would count as a “static page” in the terms above). This is exactly what Ikebana does – one of its custom page templates, called “Portfolio Page”, allows displaying all content of the type “projects” (which are not the same as default blog posts) – and you can declare such a page as a front page, just like in the Ikebana theme demo website. Note that the theme demo also shows how the default WP blog posts page looks like, here.

Ok. So if a stuff (post, page, etc..) is tagged “projects”, it will appear in the portfolio page ?
How can we set the “projects” type ? Is it a kind of checkbox somewhere ?
And how we set the tile size ?
It would be nice to see a print-screen of the admin for the portfolio page.
THX.

as I’ve mentioned above, the “portfolio project” is a separate content type, on par with the default “blog post”. This means that projects for a portfolio page are created in a separate admin section (“Portfolio -> Add New”); the portfolio page is created separately as a page (“Pages -> Add New”) and given a “Portfolio” layout from the “Page Attributes” box in the editor mode. The size of a project’s tile can be set using a special drop-down (which contains all available tile sizes) while in the editor mode.

you can use a third-party plugin to mass-convert posts into projects, e.g. this one. However, for the sake of disclosure and transparency, I do not give guarantees that 100 out of 100 third-party plugins will work perfectly with the theme, since there are simply too many of them to account for.

1). Yes, you can choose between always showing the overlay titles, showing them only on mouse hover, or not showing any at all. Note that this setting affects all tiles simultaneously.

2). Ikebana comes with a built-in SEO plugin, which allows setting the meta tags and other SEO attributes for each individual page of the website. I am not sure I understood what you meant by “not much html code” though?

2/ By clicking “show the source code” under my chrome browser, I see that the tiles do not appear in html code. So I have concerns about how the front page is seen by the Search Engines. What about the key words in the tiles’s titles for example ? But you allready answered my question

I suspect that what you are doing is checking the code of the frame which is added to ThemeForest to all theme previews. You can try to look at the code of the original theme demo (without the frame). Ikebana does not hide any HTML from the browsers.

I can add the text fine so it appears when you hover over an image (just the one done for now) but is it possible to change the background colour of the text from black to white? Or ideally for the text block to have no background at all? If you could let me know where I might alter this, that’s be really helpful…

Before we proceed, I will need to ask for your purchase code for verification purposes; this is a standard procedure for every user of the themes and is meant to counter illicit copying. In order to obtain the Item Purchase Code, please log into your ThemeForest account and go to the “Downloads” tab. Locate the theme you purchased in your “Downloads” list and click on the green “Download” button. In the ensuing drop-down, choose “License Certificate & Purchase Code” and download the file. After you have downloaded the certificate you can open it in a text editor such as Notepad and copy the Item Purchase Code.

Many thanks Andrii – is it OK to email you instead? We’ve already had some email correspondence before and my colleague bought the theme on his account and I can’t sign in under him so it might be simpler if I just email you!

Hi, I am having trouble with the whole site appearance, and the icon manu is just never appear. Yes I did read document page3-4, and have demo content ready.

Could you tell me straight away these questions?
1. By using this theme, should I set Front Page and Post page(settings>reading)? if so, what to set?
2. I already have an icon menu, but it just not appear, what do I do more for the settings?
site http://greentrav.com

Oops, still trouble with the appearance.
Please see this page(blog):
http://greentrav.com/blog/
Should I have blog as a parent page of the front page?
I now have portfolio page set to the frontpage, so I got the icon menu. but if I explore blog page, the icon menu disappears…did I set Ikebana in a right way?

Please check if the “Show icons only on portfolio pages” option in the “Icon Menu” tab of the Theme Options panel is ticked – if it is, the icon menu should indeed only bee seen on the portfolio page; if you want it to display on all pages, untick this setting and click “Save All Changes”.

yes, the respective settings in the theme demo website are identical, in case you wanted to exactly reproduce the demo website’s structure. These settings do affect any of my themes, as any other WP theme.

Hi guys !! Love the theme !
I am bumping into a problem that I can’t get to figure it out .
I want to create 3 pages ( links on the main menu ) with the portfolio template and I want each of my “portfolio pages” to display one specific tag/ or category .

Hope I am clear how do I set this up ?
Thank you in advance for your help

The “Portfolio” page template in Ikebana always displays all portfolio items, by design. In order to display projects with a specfic tag, there are automatically generated pages in the form of “example.com/tag-portfolio/slug” where “name” is the slug of the respective portfolio tag (“Portfolio -> Tags” admin menu), for example this page from the theme demo. You can add the respective tag archive pages to the menu by visiting the “Appearance -> Menus” admin section and choosing from the drop-down of Tags on the left. In case the Tags drop-down is not displayed, please open the “Screen Options” tab in the top right part of the page and tick both “tag” options. Note that since there are also post tags in Ikebana, which is a separate taxonomy, you will need to look for one of the two “Tags” drop-downs that are displayed on the left. Should you face problems with this procedure, do not hesitate to contact me!

Hi Andrii ! Thank you for your explnation ! so I succeed to do it but is there anyway to get the url without the “TAG-PORTFOLIO/nameofthetag/” ? I would the URL to display like a url page, not like a tag … is that somehting possible ?? :/

Hi Andrii,
I like to know what you have set for this portfolio item:
This item does connect to home page, but what you have on it’s content and key settings? I couldn’t copy one like it does on your demo site. Can you please share an item screenshot? I like to know at least what you have on the Permalink.

the procedure for creating a linked tile is explained in detail in the “FAQ” section of the theme manual (Appendix 1) Here’s the text for brevity:

The green “Ikebana” tile in the theme demo is a “link”-format project with a thumbnail (featured image) and link URL of the website’s front page. You can find more information about the formats in the “Post Formats” section of the manual. Note that in order for it to stay in front of all other project in the grid, you’d need to declare it as “sticky” in the “Sticky (Always First)” meta box while in the project editor mode.

Should you have additional questions about the theme, do not hesitate to contact me!

Hello! We have purchased your theme, and it was the perfect solution we needed for one of our clients requirements. Thank you for this beautiful theme! Now we need to display only posts from a certain category in the home page. We have a lot of categories in our portfolio, but just want to show “home” category on front page. Is it possible?

The “Portfolio” page template in Ikebana always displays all portfolio items, by design. In order to display projects with a specfic tag, there are automatically generated pages in the form of “example.com/tag-portfolio/slug” where “name” is the slug of the respective portfolio tag (“Portfolio -> Tags” admin menu), for example this page from the theme demo. You can add the respective tag archive pages to the menu by visiting the “Appearance -> Menus” admin section and choosing from the drop-down of Tags on the left. In case the Tags drop-down is not displayed, please open the “Screen Options” tab in the top right part of the page and tick both “tag” options. Note that since there are also post tags in Ikebana, which is a separate taxonomy, you will need to look for one of the two “Tags” drop-downs that are displayed on the left. Should you face problems with this procedure, do not hesitate to contact me!

Yes, we know that we can use tags to filter items from portfolio, but what we need is to filter items on home page. That means, we have set a page called “home” as front page (“Settings -> Reading”), with portfolio template, and we want to keep portfolio on front page, but only with certain category posts. Is it possible?

it is not possible to set a portfolio tag archive as the front page. What you will need to do is to create a new page template with a modified query that filters a specific tag. Here’s how to do it:

1). Download this archive I’ve prepared for you, unzip it, and locate line 69 (should start with ”$wp_query”).
2). Replace the figure “999” in that string with the ID of the tag you want the page to be filtered by (you can find out the tag ID by visiting the respective item in the “Portfolio -> Tags” admin section and looking at the URL: the figure right after “tag_ID” is what you’re after).
3). Save the file and upload it via FTP into the theme folder (/wp-content/themes/Ikebana).
4). Create a new page (“Pages -> Add New”) and assign the “Portfolio filtered by tag” template to it from the “Page Attributes” box in the right side of the page editor mode. Save the page.
5). Visit “Settings -> Reading” and assign the page you’ve just created as the static front page.

Please let me know if you face any difficulties with the above process!

First of all, thank you a lot. No difficulties with the above editing, we have created the new page template with an ID tag, and it works: only portfolio posts that match the ID are shown now. But styling has been lost: now the posts are not displayed as masonry, they take all the width available, as 100% width divs, and height is set based to fit the post title. Maybe we should make any changes in functions.php?

you’re right, my apologies – it slipped my mind that there are several conditional php statements present in two other theme files that target only the original portfolio template; here are the customized files – you need to download and unzip the archive, and upload the resulting files into the theme folder (/wp-content/themes/Ikebana/), replacing the existing files. Please let me know if any problems still persist after this!

you’re right, haven’t added the necessary conditional statements to a couple of places. Here you go, please unzip this and upload the resulting files into the theme folder (/wp-content/themes/Ikebana/), now it should work properly.

Glad to hear this has been solved; for other users: the’s a special settings in the Theme Optons panel which does exactly that – allows controlling the behaviour of the portfolio tile overlay text – either always showing, always hidden, or shown on mouse hover.

Should you have additional questions about Ikebana, do not hesitate to contact me!

I can see via your link that the project in question has got a slider just like is intended for a gallery type. Have you solved the problem in the meanwhile, or is it still topical? If the former, what was the cause?

simply remove all the images from the project’s content – the gallery slider is formed from the attached images (i.e. those you upload into this particular project), irrespective of the fact if you insert the images into the project content itself or not.